National Republican., 1887-04-23
CURRENT COMMENT.
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Baltimore american: Presidential tickets
IN the spring OF 1887 are apt TO die Of old
age before the fall Of 1888.
New York Tins: We fear that Lord
SaIlsbury's offer to settle the fisheries dis
pute by revertiug "to the old condition Of
affairs is more cunning than candid. Lord
Salisbury has been beaten by Mf. Phelps In
the argument about the fisheries.
Boston Herald. It seems to us that fair
trial should be given to this method Of reg
ulation. [The short haul clause. Our
own opinion is that even on fair trial,
when the obvious meaning Of the statute is
merely applied, IL will be found to work 40
much discontinue as to lead to a wide
spread demand for its repeal.
Detroit Tribune The Republican party has
nothing to lose by remaining the party Of
moral ideas. 1t was built that way. and II
cannot be expected TO depart from Its
| regularly Travelled route. 1t does not pre-
tend to he the champion Of any moral evil;
on the contrary, 1t Is the avowed enemy Of
all moral evils that find their way into
politics. Hence the hope Of Democracy In
defending these evils.
| Kansas City journal: Yesterday morning
| A committee representing five railroads Of
the northwest left for Washington TO peti.
tion the interstate commerce commission
| for a suspension Of the long and short haul
clause on through rates between Chicago
and 81. Paul. Nearly every part Of the
| country has been heard from with a similar
request. The long and short haul clause is
the most important OF the whole law. Per.
haps the commissioners would better sus-
pend the law entirely, with the exception
OF the salary provision.
Cleveland Leader: 1t is evident that the
public, without regard to party, will de-
| mand such legislation at the hands OF Con-
gress as shall prevent our country from
becoming the resort and permanent home
| of the criminals and outlaws OF all nations.
II can come none too soon. Every steamer
from Europe brings to our shores a greater
or less number OF these vagabonds, and
here these conspirators-sociais and
auarchists--fnd safety and protection.
The country must cease to nourish these
wretches or permit them to contaminate the
moral health Of our people.
Philadelphia Inquirer: 1t Is fairly ques.
tionable II ut this time this country IL really
In need of any more emgrants, even though
they be OF the superior class, for 1t lie not
at all certain that our labor markets can
absorb them as rapidly as they arrive. 1t Is
only natural that we should first consider
those who are already here and desire that
their welfare and prosperity shall he first
assured. II is not at all desirable II our
labor market is already overstocked, II 1t is
already filed with idle men and women who
would work " they could get work to do,
that hundreds of thousands OF foreign
workmen should be poured into IL.
: Atlanta Constitutions: Among thinking
men everywhere the opinion is growing
d | that the interstate commerce law is one OF
the rawest and rashest experiments that
Congress has ever made. Thus far 1t has
3 helped nobody, aud the probability is that
= II the commission were TO permit II to 90
s into effect its operations would create az
n much confusion aud disaster--as much loss
p p and suffering-as a financial panic. The
a Constitution was opposed to the Reagan bill
A on the ground that IL was Il piece OF pater
a nalism that Democrats could not afford tC
father. but the present affair Is infinitely
'' worse than the Reagan bill would have
I. been.
n Atlanta Constitution: This much Is Ger
u taln-Mr. Cleveland has done nothing
:. whatever to forfeit the confidence and es
TEEN Of the Democrats of the country, In
Guiding New York state. The Democrats
I, Of Georgia, II we may be permitted to max,
l. the comparison, are as sensitive as those OF
,f New York, and they know as well the
m difference between good and bad admin
- istration. They have watched Mr.. Cleve
i land, and they see nothing In his policy t,
x condemn. He has made mistakes here an,
~ there, but they amount to nothing whel
:, compared to the privilege that the countr!
10 now has ofliying under an honest and
patriotic administration.
l. New York Tribune: These pious Mug
OF wumps have been assiduous In their effort
<, to place the Democratic party on higl
~. moral ground ever since Mr.. Cleveland wa
Is nominated. They have given 1t good ad
vice-the very best-by the ton, day In ant
H. day out, during all that period, and tn
public thought that all the MUgwump
u thought that the Democracy was steadil
Y. improving under their administrations, an
h. would soon move forward to the anxiou
be seat. Yet to.day the leading Mugwump @
In them all, instead o. being permitted to an
he nounce the hopeful conversion of tn
fesslon that Mr.. Cleveland is still bette
II. than his party, and that Democrat
Irt eaders--ah, the intensity Of the total d,
e, pravity Of some folks-are not even Clev,
''' lands supporters
ire Philadelr rhia Times: In plain English, tt
"a labor organizations Of the country al
''' already suffering from the submissi,
ue dependence OF regulation organs, and II
In result Is ia labor, as 1t Is In politics, th
of most of the labor journals languish becaui
Irt they are the mere echoes OF the orders
power and patronage. The age has passt
away for organs In politics, and new
We organized forces In molding popular sen,
nd ment have even less use for dependel
organs than have political parties. Mn
IN. tenths Of the men in labor organization
or. read the independent newspaper, hecau
=. 1t is just to both employers and employe
Sa' and when they subscribe for the labor orga
rm they do II because 1t Ia forced upon theI
Us. Independent labor newspapers can succee
= Labor organs can't That's the whole ca
ISL In a nutshell.
Louisville Courier journal II there
VS.. anything more sckeDing to an intellige
ew American than the reading furnished by d
Atlantic cables out of the English house
of commons at this time it is the undertaking
-, write of the transactions SO graphically al
III elabOrately described. The case OF Irela
IN seems indeed to have no tinalty to it. He
M me the human passions which create histor
ltn and which we learn from the records
cai human action have elsewhere had begi
=. ming, middle, and an end, eddy round al
sIit round the same old pivotal points, like :
the waves OF the oceans that boil and bre
about the fretted coasts OF the unhap
Isle. Parties In England grow no wiser
ar. they grow older. But for the alm(
re, sublime personality of Mr.. Gladstone, lit
or no stand could be made against me
to ure.which goes back to the dark ages for
,,oo instigation, and ransacks the arsenals
w 'w,ee despotism and vengeance for Its weapo
and Philadelphia Press; The Parnell forge
So, has probably settled the passage of /
rrya coercion bill by full majority. Even
,,Lu .h England no one appears ready to just
@ tne the iagrant outrage Of the London Tin
nes ian in printing this letter, and then, when Il
w denied, refusing any information as to
All history or the reasons which convinced I
on Times that II was genuine. Such cou
ot throws on man, by common justice a
80 In ordinary fairness held presumably inI
III cent, the burden of proving negative
OF the dark and establishing the absence
"a proof when he has no case to attack and
ap- evidence to contraveDe-nothing to Il
but the naked assertion that the letter